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May 08, 2008 - Thursday, May 8th 2008 10:26 AM
Second round babies are now all hatched! Total for the 2008 breeding season is 73 chicks, which includes 8 Hartz canaries. All chicks from the first round are now weaned and...
Second Round Coming In - Friday, April 18th 2008 8:45 AM
Only three nests of chicks remain from the first round. Most hens are sitting on their second clutches although a few who were later to come into condition are sitting...
April In The Birdroom - Monday, April 7th 2008 2:29 PM
Breeding is in full swing- 16 weaned chicks are in the walk-in flight and another 6 chicks are in the weaning cage with 5 due to join them today. Then a few days to adjust to...
Breeding Season Update - Thursday, March 20th 2008 10:24 AM
Most of the hens have hatched their chicks with the exception of a few stragglers. First round has produced nearly 40 chicks from 9 hens with a 90% fertility rate- pretty...
Breeding Season 2008 Update - Monday, March 3rd 2008 9:58 AM
Breeding seaon 2008 is progressing well- there were over 30 fertile eggs in nests when I candled eggs the other day. there are a number of nests that are due to be candled...
Breeding Season 2008 - Thursday, February 28th 2008 9:27 AM
Breeding season 2008 has reached a bit of a lull- most of the hens I have caged up are sitting on eggs and are not due to hatch until March 3rd or later. While they are sitting,...
Breeding Season - Wednesday, February 20th 2008 10:23 AM
Breeding season has arrived at last and I have caged up 14 hens. Six hens have begun laying eggs and the others are working on their nests. My best male from last year is with...
Breeding Season 2008 Approaches - Sunday, February 3rd 2008 11:32 AM
I am preparing for the breeding season to begin soon- sometime around Valentine's Day. At 11.5 hours of day length, the birds are really beginning to look like they are ready. I...
Christmas in the Bird Room - Saturday, December 15th 2007 7:26 PM
Show season 2007 went very well for me- I had a young green bird which took Best in Show, 3rd Best in Show, and 8th Best in Show at various shows this fall. He is a beautful...
Caging Up! - Thursday, August 30th 2007 9:20 AM
The show cages have been washed and painted and it is time to begin the caging-up process! Males in the walk-in flight are caught and placed into show cages to begin show...
Summer Season at Happy Home Aviary - Friday, July 6th 2007 10:22 AM
The canaries are happily munching on the bountiful zucchini my garden is producing and hanging out practicing their songs. While the birds are occupied with molting, I am...
What's Happening - Monday, June 11th 2007 7:52 AM
All of the young and old birds are happily residing together in the walk-in flight cage. While they are enjoying their spacious living quarters (and I am enjoying being able to...
Summer in the birdroom - Monday, June 4th 2007 2:34 PM
All the birds, young and old, are now in the walk-in flight for the summer. Lights were dropped to 9.25 hours yesterday so even those few birds which have been holding out on...
Website Status - Friday, May 18th 2007 8:43 PM
The www.americansingercanary.com website is still being tweaked and some new content is being finished up. Work has begun on the new DRAGON website at...
Wesbite Redesign - Thursday, May 10th 2007 1:23 PM
The new and improved website is up and running - I have a few more articles to write, but the major body of the beast is there. I completely understand why folks don't re-do...
What's New - Thursday, May 3rd 2007 3:05 PM
I am hard at work on the redesign for the website- within the next week or so, the new site should be up. And what a change! The new site will be MUCH more navigable and nearly...
Last chick of 2007 has hatched! - Tuesday, April 24th 2007 1:46 PM
The last chick of 2007 hatched on April 22nd. Seven chicks were placed in the weaning cage yesterday and three more will join them this afternoon. Strangely enough, my first...
Changing of the seasons - Monday, April 16th 2007 10:45 PM
The last nest of chicks is due to hatch on the 21st of April. This will signal the beginning of the end of the 2007 breeding season, whcih will produce about 65 babies. New...
Care of Birds During the Molt - Tuesday, April 10th 2007 10:27 AM
I now have 30 or more young birds in the walk-in flight cage. These birds, while now able to feed themselves, are still growing and are in need of the same great nutrition they...
Babies, babies... babies everywhere! - Sunday, April 8th 2007 2:41 PM
I now have four weanlings in the weaning cage. 30+ young birds are in the walk-in flight with the hens that are finished for this breeding season. Nine second round chicks have...
Wrapping up first round - Thursday, March 29th 2007 9:25 AM
More than a dozen weanlings are in the walk-in flight now and another three weanlings went into the weaning cage yesterday. There are only three nests of chicks (14 in all) from...
Weanlings! - Thursday, March 22nd 2007 8:29 PM
Six weaned babies went into the walk-in flight yesterday and four weanlings went into a weaning cage this morning. Five more chicks  will go into the weaning cage in the...
36 Chicks and counting... - Tuesday, March 13th 2007 9:12 PM
The current count for chicks in my bird room is 38, with another nest of 5 fertile eggs due to hatch on Wednesday morning. Another hen was set up in a cage with a male this...
A bit of a break - Friday, March 2nd 2007 10:11 AM
I have reached a bit of a break in egg collecting- all hens are either sitting on eggs or feeding chicks. I believe I am at 18, 19, or 20 chicks at the moment- I find that in...
Monday - Monday, February 26th 2007 9:58 PM
We are now at 15 babies, with a nest of five due on Tuesday. Four babies (including one cinnamon)have been banded with closed American Singers Club registered bands. Tuesday...